A Cloud-Based Service Delivery Platform for Effective Homeland Security

Abstract

The discipline of Homeland Security is gaining wider traction especially after the horrendous attack on the world trade center, the USA in 2001. Recently national governments are very seriously and sincerely putting a lot of emphasis and efforts on national security aspects that implicitly cover the safety and security of people, infrastructures, and resources. It is overwhelmingly acknowledged that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the best fit and the route for effectively scavenging, sensitizing and securing the various mission and life-critical sources and resources of the continents, countries, counties, and cities. In this paper, we would like to insist how the emerging and evolving concept of cloud computing will effectively safeguard and seal the security of nations and their occupants, constituents, and participants. In this paper, we have contributed with a description of homeland security services that can be designed, built and hosted on public clouds. We have designed a flexible framework for the cloud–based service development, deployment, and delivery platform, especially for homeland security. As services are being implemented in the cloud environment, the availability and accessibility get comprehensively easy and ensured for worldwide developers to come out with better, leaner, and adaptive homeland security applications.